Saturday, December 04, 2010

Check this out!! In the course of livening up the ol' blog, I've added this this fab new sidebar widget --> to psychically *cough* randomly *cough* select a batch of amusing old posts just for you!

After a bit of playing with it, it's kind of making me want to go back and delete all of my less-interesting filler-posts. Like this one. ;)

p.s. If any of the posts it chooses really are eerily relevant to your life, please leave a comment! I'd like to build up some (self-selection-biased) evidence to prove that my psychic powers really are amazing!!! :D

2 comments:

Yeah, I'm glad this plug-in was already out there for free. (I was about to try my hand at JavaScripting one, but then I figured this must already exist...).

For a while, I had a static "best of" list in my sidebar to introduce new readers to the site. But the problem is that that one list I chose so many eons ago isn't necessarily the best of my blog, and it's a bother to try to keep it updated. And I'm really not happy with the "popular posts" widget -- it creates a cycle where a handful of (non-necessarily-representative) posts remain as the top posts forever. I figured selecting a bunch of titles and snippets at random would work better for giving people the flavor of the site.

Also, I think it would be cool if someone responds with an "eerily relevant" post turning up. It's a funny illustration of how a random collection of complex information naturally turns up coincidences -- like "miracles".